Speece M W, Brent S B
Child Dev. 1984 Oct;55(5):1671-86.
This review of the empirical literature on the development of the concept of death focuses on 3 components of that concept: irreversibility, nonfunctionality, and universality. These findings overall suggest that the majority of healthy children in modern urban-industrial societies achieve an understanding of all 3 components between 5 and 7 years of age. Since this is also the age at which most children make the transition from preoperational to concrete-operational thinking, some relationship between these 2 processes seems likely. However, attempts to empirically validate that relationship have thus far yielded ambiguous results. Possible reasons for this ambiguity are suggested.
不可逆转性、无功能性和普遍性。这些研究结果总体表明，现代城市工业社会中的大多数健康儿童在5至7岁之间能够理解这三个组成部分。由于这也是大多数儿童从前运算思维向具体运算思维过渡的年龄，这两个过程之间似乎存在某种联系。然而，迄今为止，通过实证来验证这种关系的尝试得到的结果并不明确。文中提出了造成这种不明确性的可能原因。
